It Looks Like Instagram Is Making a Version of Snapchat, Too

25

Jul

2014

Instagram appeared to unveil a one tap photo messaging app, called Bolt, to a few select users through the Instagram app on Android. Facebook, which owns Instagram, had a similar situation occur with Slingshot, their Snapchat duplicate. Slingshot was available for download in the app store for a very short time, before Facebook yanked it down, saying it was accident that it was released at all. This particular user, Richard Groves, told The Verge he received the Bolt banner on his Nexus 5 device yesterday at around 11:00 p.m. ET.